Cigarette.



PATENTBD JUNE 9, 1908.

T. T. HUTOHINSON.

GIG ARETTE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7. 1906.

MODEL.

Witnesses.

THOMAS TA RN llUTUlllNbUN, Ol

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NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

CIGARE TTE Application filed February 7, 1906.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Serial No. 300,016. ('Model.)

To all whom it may con ccr'n:

Be it known that I, 'lnoMAs TARN llu'reu- INsoN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and at. the present time a resident of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Imprrwements in Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

The improvements to which the invention relates consist in providing cigarettes with peculiarly formed ignition tips whereby each cigarette to which the invention has been applied is adapted to cooperate with an igniting strip formed upon one or more of the inner sides of its containing box or carton to ell'ect the igniting of the end of the cigarette as the latter is withdrawn from its box or carton.

In reducing the improvements to practice, several requisites have been found necessary to a successful and practical embodiment; and chief among these requisites are the provision of means for insuring the contact of the tips with the igniting strip or strips and the provision of means for producing a uniform ignition over the entire end of each cigarette.

To the end of fulfilling these requisites the improvements have been devised and consist, as was stated above, in providing an ignition tip of peculiar form.

It should be stated that the boxes or cartons in which the cigarettes manufactured in accordance with the present invention are packed are arranged to open at one end so that in withdrawing a cigarette, the latter has to be pulled out longitudinally, the igniting strips being located upon one or more of the inner sides near the open end of the box. It is essential that cigarettes I ut up in this way shall not be packed too tig tly, else it will be diliicult to withdraw them conveniently, and for this reason when a cigarette is withdrawn the sides of the cigarette do not ordinarily bind closely against the inner sides of the box. It has been found in practice therefore that the ignition tip upon the end of the cigarette, in order to produce the necessary friction in rubbing across the igniting strip as it is withdrawn from the box, should project beyond the periphery of the cigarette to some substantial extent. Moreover, as the sides of the box are flexible and tend to bulge outwardly there is all the more necessity of providing some such means to insure theignition of the cigarette as it is being withdrawn. in accordance with the invention therefore the periphery of the tip is made to extend out beyond the periphery of the cigarette so that as the cigarette is withdrawn at least some portion of the periphery of the tip will strike the strip and produce sullicient friction to ignite it.

The ignition will spread immediately to all parts of the tip and will cause. the end of the cigarette to become uniformly ignited. In order, however, to further insure the uniform ignition of the end of the cigarette, the tip is preferably extended so as to cover the entire end. In this way there is produced upon the end of the cigarette a glowing coal immedi- 'ately as any part of the tip becomes ignited by contact with the complementary strip upon the box.

The invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in, which,

Figure 1 illustrates in perspective a box of cigarettes manufactured in accordance with the present invention, the delivery end of the box being open and one cigarette being shown in the position in which it leaves the box. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the cigarette, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section' through the box.

From the drawings the box will be seen to consist of an outer casing with flat sides a an narrow ends I), and an inner casing slidable within the outer casing and provided with a cover d having a flap 0 which is folded down over the outer ends of the cigarettes when the box is closed. Upon two of the inner sides of the inner casing c are igniting stri ps f designed to cooperate with igniting tips g u )on the inner ends of the cigarettes, presently to be referred to, these strips extending transversely of the box so that as each cigarette is withdrawn from the box the tip g must be drawn over and past the strips Two such strips are preferably provided in order that the tip 9 may be ignited upon opposite sides as a cigarette is withdrawn.

The cigarettes which are indicated by the letter h are shown to be of the ordinary type although it will be understood that this invention is applicable to cigars as well as cigarettes; and the term cigarette as used throughout the specification and claims will be understood to be a generic term. In the present case the cigarette is of uniform mum cross section of the cigarette.

cigarette Y cigarette by the cross section althou gh it will be understood that the invention is not necessarily limited in its application to such a cigarette but may be applied to a cigar which does-not have a uniform cross-section.

The tip 9 is constructed so ery is greater than the periphery of the maxi- In the present case, the cigarettes being uniform in cross section, the periphery of the tip extends sli htly beyond the periphery of the ut to such a substantial extent as to produce the necessar ignition friction when it is drawn across t e strip or strips f.

hen anyportion of the tip 9 has become ignited the ignition is communicated at once around the entire periphery of the end of the rotruding tip and a uniform ignition resu ts.

In practice it has been found preferable to cover the entire end of the cigarette with the material of the tip so as to produce after the cigarette is withdrawn a glowing coal covering the entire end of the cigarette and in this way to more certainly insure a uniform, thorough and instantaneous ignition of the tobacco. By these means too the ignition of one portion of the tip is more quickly communicated to the rest of'the tip and to the tobacco at the end of the cigarette. Afterthe tips have been thus formed and have hardened the ends of the tobacco are embedded in the tip whereby the tobacco becomes ignited simultaneously that its periphwith the tip, the tip bein severable from the cigarette as soon as the first ash is'forme The material of the tip itself is compounded of a particular combination of ingredients which will not result in the production of noxious fumes and which'have other qualities.

which particularly adapt the compound for use in this connection. This, however, forms no part of the present invention, the scope of which is set forth in the following claims.

I claim as m invention:

A cigarette avin an approximately uniform,crosssection throughout and provided at one end with an ignition disk extending entirely around the same and projecting sufficiently at the sides so as to extend beyond the maximum periphery of the cigarette and covering the entire end of the cigarette, whereby in withdrawing the cigarette from a box provided with an igniting strip upon its inner surface andadjacent its 0 en end, some portion of the ignition disk Wlll strike the i niting strip causing the ignition of the w ole disk and simultaneously the ignition of the end of the ci arette.

Signed at t e city and district of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, this fifth day of February, 1906.

THOMAS TARN HUTCHINSON.

Witnesses:

LLOYD BLAOKMORE, G. H. TIESIDDER. 

